1/11/2024 0 Comments Rita panahi video of trump dancingOne Nation’s Mark Latham declared that long COVID wasn’t a disease - despite huge amounts of research showing its biological impact - but a “mental state” caused by watching the mainstream media. Professor Ian Plimer (falsely) claimed that no one had ever proven that humankind’s carbon emissions have contributed to climate change. The IPA’s Bella d’Abrera declared students were being “indoctrinated” by a national curriculum including criticism of Australia’s colonial history as well as sex and gender education. The rest of the conference’s Australian speakers focused on the other ideological battlegrounds. Whitaker warned against altering Australia’s constitution, citing America’s near-religious obsession with its own founding document. Former prime minister Tony Abbott said a Voice wasn’t necessary because of existing Indigenous federal politicians and would be “discrimination”. Price promised that constitutionally enshrining an Indigenous advisory body would create “racial separatism”. Much of the first day was dedicated to the case against it. The Voice to Parliament was the major target of the weekend. Welcome to CPAC Australia #CPACAU2022 /Whe8CvVgzr- Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO September 30, 2022 The audience appeared to be, for the most part, older, white and fully engrossed in Price’s speech. The front section was roped off for golden-ticket holders (“only $479 for members”). I hurried into the back of the full auditorium as the welcome to country was happening. I was running a few minutes late and the conference had just started so the conference lobby was mostly empty, barring a cardboard cut-out of Donald Trump. They gave me a tote bag, which included a copy of the far-right conspiracy-promoting newspaper The Epoch Times, The Spectator and a flyer advertising Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) memberships for “only” $99. ![]() The centre’s staff - masked - checked my ticket at the doors before I went up to the CPAC registration where my ticket was checked again. When I walked into the conference on Saturday morning, I noticed a heavy police presence around the ICC’s entrances. Through the weekend, a sense of conflict and contradiction bubbled barely below the surface, only to erupt towards the end. I saw some attendees and speakers clearly thought some of them were inside the room. Speakers listed their many enemies - most common were climate scientists, indoctrinating teachers, unelected bureaucrats, Dictator Dan, and the radical and woke left - but one group earned more opprobrium from the crowd than almost any other: “conservative cowards”, said Farage. What the audience heard over the weekend, the speakers promised, was the way out of the wilderness for the conservative political movement. I was among 1000 attendees who made their way to the ICC in Sydney to hear from a mix of Australian right-wing politicians and commentators and a few headline international names like Nigel Farage, former Trump adviser Jason Miller, and former Trump acting attorney-general Matt Whitaker. ![]() Jacinta Price is the breakout star of the opposition to the Voice to Parliament Read More
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